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Nowadays, a lot of effort is spent on developing inexpensive orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) receivers. Especially, zero intermediate frequency (zero-IF) receivers are very appealing, because they avoid costly IF filters. However, zero-IF front-ends also introduce significant additional front-end distortion, such as IQ imbalance. Moreover, zero-IF does not solve the phase noise problem. Unfortunately, OFDM is very sensitive to the receiver nonidealities IQ imbalance and phase noise. Therefore, we developed a new estimation/compensation scheme to jointly combat the IQ imbalance and phase noise at baseband. In this letter, we describe the algorithms and present the performance results. Our compensation scheme eliminates the IQ imbalance based on one OFDM symbol and performs well in the presence of phase noise. The compensation scheme has a fast convergence and a small residual …